Writer-on-writer violence
June 14, 2011
“There is a difference,” said my writer father, to discourage my youthful admiration of another family member, who had a pedestrian column in a local newspaper, “between a writer and a typist.”
That’s some hater language right there.
What’s the meanest thing you ever heard—or said—about another writer?
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In 2016, Justin Carisio retired from a 35-year career as a speechwriter and company historian with DuPont. While continuous service with the same employer for that length of time is impressive, there’s something even more remarkable about Carisio’s CV. It’s that he came into speechwriting not from print journalism, or political science or law - but from poetry.
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